Betting on Hitler—The Value of Political Connections in Nazi Germany

By Thomas P. Ferguson, H. Voth. 2005

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Subfields: Accounting, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• Political connections and the cost of equity capital (2012, unknown): “Ferguson and Voth (2008) consider firms to be politically connected if the executives and supervisory board members were close to the ruling party in the early 1930s in Germany.”
• MPs for Sale? Returns to Office in Postwar British Politics (2009, background): “…consultants, or executives is valuable to firms precisely because of the political connections and knowledge that politicians possess (Faccio 2006; Ferguson and Voth 2008; Fisman 2001; Goldman, Rocholl, and So 2008; n.d.; Jayachandran 2006; Johnson and Mitton 2003; Khwaja and Mian 2005; Roberts…”
• Mixing business with politics: Political participation by entrepreneurs in China (2015, background): “The benefit induced by political capital from political participation is at least as significant as that from political connections (e.g. Fisman, 2001; Faccio, 2006; and Ferguson and Voth, 2008).”
• Political Connectedness and Firm Performance: Evidence from Germany (2010, background): “Ferguson and Voth (2008) show that firms that had connections to the Nazi regime significantly outperformed firms with no connections between January and May 1933, the time period in which the new regime established its power.”
• Political Connections and the Process of Going Public: Evidence from China (2009, unknown): “Ferguson and Voth (2008) investigate the value of connections between German industry and the Nazi movement in 1933.”
• High-level politically connected firms, corruption, and analyst forecast accuracy around the world (2010, background): “6For example, under the Nazi regime, German armament producers worked through the National Socialist German Workers’ Party to expand their access to the domestic market (Ferguson & Voth, 2008).”
• Political connections of newly privatized firms (2008, background): “Ferguson and Voth (2006) consider firms to be politically-connected if the executives and supervisory board members were close to the ruling party in the early 1930s in Germany.”